Annual Monitoring Report 2020 - Croatia
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/764 of 13 April 2022
List of ACCs 1
Zagreb ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 0
<80’K 0
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2020: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2020 1.8%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2020 1.4%
Share en route / terminal costs 2020 100% / 0%
En route charging zone(s)
Croatia
Terminal charging zone(s)
Main ANSP
• Croatia Control
Other ANSPs
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MET Providers
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Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Croatia recorded 301K actual IFR movements in 2020, -58% compared to 2019 (714K).
▪ Croatia IFR movements reduced more than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
▪ Croatia recorded 929K actual en route service units in 2020, -58% compared to 2019 (2,193K).
▪ Croatia service units reduced more than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ Croatia Control achieved the EoSM targets for RP3 on all management objectives except safety risk management and safety policy and objectives.
▪ The NSA verified and confirmed the achieved levels and identified specific actions to achieve the RP3 EoSM target for safety risk management and safety policy and objectives. Thus, performance should improve in 2021.
▪ Based on the maturity achieved at the end of RP2, the EoSM performance is lower than expected (Croatia Control exceeded the target on several management objectives, including reaching the highest maturity level for safety policy and objectives in 2019). Croatia Control needs to improve its maturity by one level on four out of 28 EoSM questions to achieve the RP3 targets.
▪ There was a significant decrease in the rate of separation minima and no occurrences of runway incursions in 2020 compared to 2019. Croatia monitors safety performance using specific automated safety recording tools for SMIs and it is one of only a handful of Member States to do so.
▪ Croatia Control should improve its SMS by implementing automated safety data recording systems for RIs.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Croatia achieved a KEA performance of 1.47% compared to its reference value of 1.49% and therefore contributed positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.
▪ Uniquely, since 2016 Croatia has managed to improve its shortest constrained route to levels similar to that of KEA, meaning airspace users are flying close to optimum routes within the existing airspace structure.
▪ However, Croatia stated that it does not expect this level of performance to continue as traffic grows and the RAD restrictions it lifted are once again imposed to better manage capacity.
▪ Croatia has no airports that are regulated under the RP3 performance and charging scheme.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Croatia Control registered zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2020, thus meeting the local breakdown value of 0.43.
▪ Delays must be considered in the context of the traffic evolution: IFR movements in 2020 were 58% below the 2019 levels in Croatia.
▪ Croatia reported 14% less ATCO FTEs by the end of 2020 than in 2019. This was due to accelerated ATCO retirement, postponed training activities, a change in paid leave dynamics and allocation of ATCOs to non-operational work.
▪ Croatia reported that the planned number of ATCOs for 2020 was calculated using the total number of ATCO licenses instead of ATCO FTEs in OPS. Thus, the PRB does not have enough information to estimate potential capacity shortfalls.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Zagreb ACC was 20,133, showing a 45.0% decrease compared to 2019.
▪ Zagreb ACC registered 14.02 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2020, being 23.0% below 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The 2020 actual service units (929K) were 58% lower than the actual service units in 2019 (2,192K).
▪ Croatia had more staff retiring in 2020 compared to 2019, managing as well to reduce total costs in 2020 by 3 M€2017 (-3%) compared to 2019 actual costs. The reduction in costs is driven by a reduction of 4 M€2017 (-20%) in other operating costs, due to the postponement and freeze of ATCO trainings, missions, maintenance and utilities.
▪ Croatia Control spent 16 M€2017 in 2020 related to cost of investments, 8% less than planned in the 2019 draft performance plan (18 M€2017). The decrease in cost of investments is due to the postponement of significant number of investments, in order to preserve liquidity due to COVID-19.